Conflict, fragility and resilience

States of Fragility Reports

States of Fragility 2018

Three years into the 2030 Agenda it is already apparent that those living in fragile contexts are the furthest behind. Not all forms of fragility make it to the public’s eye: fragility is an intricate beast, sometimes exposed, often lurking underneath, but always holding progress back. Conflict, forced displacement, violent extremism, famine etc. are all causes and consequences of fragility. Hence the need to better understand, anticipate and respond to fragility.

States of Fragility 2018 exposes the critical challenge posed by fragility in achieving the aspirations of the 2030 Agenda, sustainable development and peace. It highlights twelve key aspects of fragility, defying common assumptions and simplistic categorisation. It documents progress made in fragile situations on attaining sustainable development, unveiling exit doors from the fragility trap. It then illustrates the current state of financing to address fragility and suggests more effective approaches, accounting for its multidimensionality.

The OECD 2018 States of Fragility Framework can be found on GitHub at this link here

ODA disbursements to the 58 fragile contexts identified in the 2018 fragility framework available here.

What is fragility?

Fragility is defined as the combination of exposure to risk and insufficient coping capacity of the state, system and/or communities to manage, absorb or mitigate those risks. Fragility can lead to negative outcomes including violence, the breakdown of institutions, displacement, humanitarian crises or other emergencies (States of Fragility report, 2016:22).

Listen to an extract of a recent podcast where Jonathan Papoulidis, Executive Advisor on Fragile States for World Vision and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, discusses the OECD fragility frameworkListen here(Source: ACUNS, Academic Council on the United Nations System).